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THE MESCAL BUTTON. Its Widespread Us Narcotio Among the Indiana. Mosenl as a narcotic Is usoil to nu rxtent tliat Is lioi-omins iilnruIii niiinii llii' Amorlcnn Iiullaus. Mesial is iln iuHUu"t tf a nu-lus v, I:i,-h lias Inns foo-.i uschI anums-tlio Mi'.Nhr.iis as an Intoxicant mulor tin liaini' ( f iu'lloto. Tho Indians uso the nn :il Hit ton a Ui'.nl of !an, vory MiKT, w'hk-li Is sonuMlnios oliowoil and m nu't iir.es lirowod in n kind of tea. It proihu'cs lialhu-lnatlons of such a liarai-tor as to ila o this plant In the mi !!!: r;;nk with hasheesh, opium and other ilruirs which have produced for men the Joys of an artilicial paradise. The Kiowa Indians are said to have used the mescal Hitton from time im memorial In religious ceremonies. Onulually the practice has spread northward. The Toncas and some of their neighbors In Indiau Territory and Oklahoma took it up. Thence it ex tended to the Oniahas and Wlnneha poes. and now the practice is acquiring a foothold amoupr the Sioux. The tribes which have longest used it have sent missionaries to introduce their wonderful new medicine among other tribes, and wherever it becomes knvwn its allurements prove irresisti ble. Clubs are formed for social indul gence in this narcotic. Iu some cases the sMdents returned from eastern and t'thor boarding schools have become members and promoters of these clubs. The meetings are usually hold iu the afternoon. After the mysterious cere monies iu acknowledgment of the se cret povvr of the strange divinity have taken place the buttons are passed r.ri tn.u for chewing, four or five to each member, am! the tea is brewed v.vA drunk. Only the novice experi ences any unpleasant sensation, and this soon passes off. There ensues only a blissful feeling of lassitude, accom panied by a delicious sense of happi ness and peace. O::o other efAvt of this remarkable lrug may be noted in this brief sura-iiiai;.-. The mescal takes away all de sire for alcoholic drink. Hampton In stitute Southern Workman. Missouri's Forests. Nature has bestowed upoii the 70,000 square miles of Missouri rich and va ried gifts, and they will not diminish If they are handled on the right economic system. Ou the other hand, they will certainly be destroyed If not protected by forethought and wise methods. When forests are slashed off waste fully something more than timber is wiped out. Floods are Increased, and the climate itself is affected. A farm er whose soil washes away loses his working basis. Every desert place in the paths of civilization tells its story of a wanton waste of the forests. The mischief may be quickly, done. Only ten years ago the wooded area in Mis souri was estimated at 41.000 square miles, or GO per cent. Now the forest area is stated to be 27,000 square miles, or 39 per cent. The lumber production in Missouri during the last decade has averaged at least 600,000,000 feet a year. At this rate comparatively lit tle would cease to be reckoned in a large way. Yet, properly conserved, it would last forever. St. Louis Globe Democrat Bad For the Game. Joe Ryan, the Chicago story teller, met a coal operator who told him a story of two dealers at a gambling house who were invited to go out and shoot ducks. They had never shot anything, these dealers, but craps and patrons, and they were nervous and not exactly up to what they were to do. They went to a hunting hut in the Illinois river and were told they were to rise early in the morning and go out after the ducks. They were so excited they couldn't sleep, and about mid night one of them went out In front of the hut and saw a large number of wooden decoy ducks floating Jn the jynter. He rushed back, got his gun "and began firing at the decoys. His companion, startled by the sound, came out and took one look. Then he screamed: "Stop it! Stop it, you lunatic! You're shooting the boosters!" Saturday Evening Post. r The President's Offices. The wing of the White House, built In 1903 for the offices of the president, lias proved to be too small, although it contains much more room than was Available when the executive business was done in the main building. Congress has appropriated money for doubling the size of the new wing, and work on it wi:i begin soon. The addition will extend over the ground used by Pres ident Koosevelt as a tennis court. The plans provide for a large oval room for the prc-sident overlooking the Po tomac, flanked on the right by his sec retary's office end on the left by a new cabinet room. An enlarged waiting room for the public and a special waiting pun fr members of congress will occupy part of the space vacated in the original building, and the presi dent, separated from the public by a hall, will be able to do his work hi greater privacy. Youth's Companion. The Cholera In Russia Cable messages from St. Petersburg telling of the spread of cholera are lKrue out by letters from Russian cor respondents of the London papers. One writer says: "The habitual dirt and particularly the sullen Indiffer ence of the inhabitants of the outlying imd Neva districts, however, make the situation desperate. Though the canals tire Infected with cholera bacilli, they drink unboiled water and refuse to employ disinfectant. They consider that the disease Is heaven wnt. Until the water Is purified cholera will con tin ne." IN A BARBER SHOP. What Happened When Shadby Lest His Patience. The barber had performed the oper ation with skill and dexterity, and as he was about to drop the foot rest and bolt Shadby upright he happened to think of his stereotyped-list of ques tions and began: race massage, sir?" "No, not today." "Hair singed V" .No." Shampoo?" "So." "Electric scalp treatment?" "No." "Hlpp's dandruff cure? P.eg pardon, 6.1 r, but you need it." "No, not today." "Faker's skin food?" "No." "Manicure or shoe shine?" (Slleuce.) "Hair and mustache dyed?" Iiy this time Shadby, had lost all pa tience, and, whirling on the innocent talking machine, he shouted: "No, mp, no! I don't want any of the things you rattled off. nor do I want a Turk ish bath or to be measured for a suit. 1 don't waut my teeth filed nor a third leg grafted on. I don't want to be fit ted to spectacles nor take a chance in a lottery. I came In to get a shave, and I asked for a shave. If I had want ed a .glass eye put in I would have asked you. S-h-a-v:e, that's what I wanted. Now proceed with the comb and brush finale!" Boston Globe. His Greatest Happiness. Four-yoar-okl Lee's older brother was just convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever, and the fact that all solid food had been forbidden not even much liquid could be given had made a very strong impression on Loe's mind. The little fellow and his mother were invited out to dinner with a friend. Shortly after our arrival there the friend said: "Well. Lee, we haven't any playthings for little boys. What shall we do to amuse you?" Aud Lee replied, "Just let me eat." Deline ator. Nothing New. Fompous Briton Haw! You bloom ing Americans don't have the "master of the hounds," as we do over in Eng land. Bluff Individual What are you giv ing us, beau? Why, I was master of the hounds in an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" show for ten years. Boston Tran script. In Paris. Mrs. Jonah Q. Terks (on her first visit to Paris, addressing Maitre d'Ho tel) Say er Gassong, oo ay le din ing room? Maitre d'Hotel First floor on the right, madam. Mrs. J. Q. P. (with relief)-Oh! You speak English? Flinch. The Constant Kicker. "Not so many years ago people would have laughed at a man who proposed to do business by talking through a tel ephone." " Yes,' V answered Mr. SIrius Barker. "Once they would have laughed. Now they feel sorry for him." Washington Star. His Long Standing. "Ah," said the doctor, "nervous dys pepsia! Is it a case of long standing?" "Yes," replied the patient. "That may have something to do with it." "What do you mean?" "Long standing. I'm a motorman." Catholic Standard and Times. An Exception. "Always say what you believe." "No please don't." "Wrhy not?" "I expect you to believe that your baby is the cleverest one in the world, but I wish you wouldn't talk about it." Cleveland Leader. Those Villas. Stubb Looks pretty barren around here. Penn And yet the agent advertised it as the "land of plenty." Stubb H'm! He must have meant plenty of mosquitoes. Chicago News. A Warning. I The Slugger An see here; you don't wanter be goin' around braggln' dat it Uas me wot soaked you, see! Elevator Etiquette. "Do you think a man ought to take jff his hat in an elevator when there are ladies present?" "Not if he it prematurely bald and the ladies are young." Houston Post Entirely Different. "What! Spend flOO ou a bathing suit?" "Now. hubby, this isn't a bathing suit This is a beach costume." Kan sas City Journal. THE HORSE. He Is 8o Stupid That He Can Be Taught Any Habit, There have been on exhibition at various times horses that are appar ently prodigies" of mathematical insight that can do anything with numbers that the trainer can do. Yet we ab solutely kuow that no animal can so much as count at all. Furthermore, It Is always the horse that perforins these marvels, though the horse is the most utterly stupid of all the dumb creatures that man has made his frleuds. That is precisely why the horse is always taken to be made Into an arith metician. He is so stupid that ho can be taught anything any habit, that is and. having no mind to be taken up with his own affairs, can be relied on to do exactly as he Is told. All these arithmetical fakes, what ever their details, are worked in essen tially the same way. The horse Is taught, by endless repetitions, some mechanical habit. A given signal, and he begins to paw the floor. Another signal, and he stops. Tress the proper button, and he takes a sponge and nibs it over a certain spot on a black board or picks up a card lying in a certain position. That is all he does. The meaning of the act exists for the spectator only. The pa wings count the answer to a problem in addition, the card bears the reply to a question, but the horse does not know It. He merely follows a blind habit. Just as he will stop when you say "Whoa!" though you interpolate the word into your recitation of the Declaration of Independence. McClure's Magazine. IT CAME TRUE. The Large Party and the Calamity That Followed. "You can't make me believe," Uncle Abner Jarvis was saying, "that ther-i Isn't something in fortune telling." His auditors were grouped round the stove in the corner grocery store. "Ever have any experience with it?" asked one of them. "That's what I was going to tell you, resumed Uncle Abner. "Once when I was at the county fair I saw a little tent with a sign on the outside of it that said Mme. Somebody-or-other would tell your fortune for 25 cents. I stepped inside Just for fun. "A woman with a thick veil over her face was sitting in a chair on a raised platform. I gave her a quarter, and she looked at my hand. One of the things she told me was that I was going to have a large party at my house in less than a month and that it would be follered by a calamity. "I laughed at that. Thinks I to my self, 'We hain't had any parties of any kind to our house for two years, and I don't reckon we'll have one quite as soon as that.' But it did come true. In about two weeks my wife's Aunt Jane came to visit us, and if you think she ain't a large party you ought to see her. She weighs 287 pounds." "But how about the calamity?" in quired the man who was sitting on the nail keg after a long pause. "Well," said Uncle Abner slowly. 'she broke down our spare bed the first night she slept in it." Youth's Companion. Had Forty Homes. Vollon, the painter, was a unique personage even among the odd charac ters of Paris. While he was essen tially a bohemian, there were times when even his patience was taxed to the utmost, and to obviate the neces sity of meeting unwelcome people he conceived the Idea of multiplying his lodging places. ,At the time of his death he owned no less than forty homes, all in apartment houses, situ- ' from the best known, strictly wholesale house . A rt- fettle, of GENUINE' -slvLvKl M9 CYRUS NOBLE direct to you "fjjjyil . l 0 charges paid to the near- TsraJroeJ express office. Established in Portland in If-'-t. 4 quarts GENUINE CYRUS NOBLE $4.90. A .jure old honest whiskey bottled by the distillers. - Guaranteed to the United States Government, and to you, to contain nothing excepting pure straight whiskey. . Mar of the railroads use Uyrus INooie aimosi huto.ei,. So d the big steamship companies. So dots nearly every big metropolitan hotel. Because it's pure. Xi . I Because il has that tolt. delicate, palatable flavor ol the ripened graui, often mentioned but rarely found. W. J. VAN SCHUYVER '& CO Established 1864 105-107 Second Street, Portland. Oregon i tut r this ue o mhto-ot W. J. Van Schuyver & Co, P.ruW. Onik Eii Cud M.90 l wUi (4ow GENUINE CYRUS NOBLE. ' 1 I ated In all the out of the way Corners of Paris, plainly furnished and with Just enough accommodation for him self. He changed from' one to the other all the time in order to escape Importunate anjuaintances and to take refuge from his friends It was In or der to throw them all off tho scent that he engaged rooms all 'over tho city. He finally died in the IJue de Dunkerque, where he had ns many as three different apartments, all within a stone's throw of one another. The Stone Houses of Easter Island. The remarkable stone houses of Easter Island are built against a ter race of earth or rock, which in some cases forms the back wall of the dwelling. They are built of small slabs of stratified basaltic rock piled to gether without cement. No regularity of plan is shown in the construction of a majority of them. The average measurement Is as follows: Height from floor to ceiling, 4 feet G inches; thickuess of walls. 4 feet to 10 inches; width of rooms, 4 feet 0 inches; length of rooms, 12 feet 9 inches; average size of doorways height, 20 iucbes; width, 19 inches. Skeptical. "I kind of agree with tho folks who say that story about George Washing ton and the cherry tree is a myth." said Farmer Corntossel after a thought ful silence. "For what reason?" Inquired his wife. "Well, human nature Is purty much tho same in all generations, and if I had a boy who picked up an ax an' voluntarily went out to chop wood I wouldn't chide him. I'd hand him a modal." Washington Star. Practical. "I send you 10.000 kisses." he wrote. "Bah!" she exclaimed, tossiug his letter aside. "Why doesn't lie come aud look over Ids terminal facilities in person?" Chicago Record-Herald. A stout heart may be ruined in for tune, but not In spirit. Victor Hugo. What Forty Poles Make. ' A good story Is told about a certain professor whose business it was to lec ture to a number of students on sur veying. During one of the lectures the professor said that in his opinion the pole was of little or no value. To the astonishment of those present a Polish gentlemanarose and after accusing the professor of, insulting his countrymen demanded an apology. The professor thereupon explained that the pole to which he referred was merely a term of measurement. The Polish gentleman, seeing his mistake, asked the professor to forgive his ap parent rudeness. To this the professor smartly replied: "You could not be rude, sir, even if you tried, for it takes forty poles to make one rood!" London Mail. The Amazon River. Although not the largest or longest river, the Amazon is the most wonder ful river in the world, with a mouth 150 miles In width and with a force of water that repels or at least over lays the ocean to a distance of more than fifty leagues. Yet in spite of the weight of the river the tide makes its influence felt for 500 miles from the coast. The .easterly trade winds blow almost Invariably upward, so as to be ready to help the vessel against the adverse currents. In Disguise. "Do you mean to say that you flirted with your wife all the evening at the masked ball and didn't know her?" "That's right. But she was so deuced agreeable how was I to know her?" Exchange. in the JsonhwesL Cut Out Ik Conpea ud Seas' Ta-fer mmdmttmchf a;, prepud. four quarts illiUllli .M .muiliiTITnTmmSTmuKlrrmlUl.iillillwlilll.i.lllHil!!! iill Afcgctable Prcparalionfor As similating IhcFoodandKcguIa ting the Stomachs and. 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The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years Ml TMf OCNTAUMi aoMMNT. NCW TOM OHY. DIRECTORS W. O. MINOR J. 11. McHALEY W. G. SCOTT AM r STOR PflLflCE HOTE1 HEPPNER, OREGON Leading Eastern Oregon HoUi MODERN CONVENIENCES ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . . Under" New Management. Thoroughly Renovated and Reflitted. Beat Meila in the City. HADDOCK 1 CO. Prop. Architect, Plumber, Mechanical Engineer, Civil Engineer, Surveyor, Aseayer. Chemist, Mining Engineer, Contractor and Builder. Notice For Publication. Department of tho Interior." U. S. Land Office at LBrand, Omton, JOctober 11, 1809. 'T Notice is hereby Riven that Artimus Hrown of Heppner, Oregon, who, on July Uth, l'Jol made homestead entry No. 136.6. aerial No. 071)57, for 8V4 NE! NVt 6E?. section 18, town ihip 5 W. Ran Ke 27 E. W. M., haa filed notice of Intention t j make final five year proof, toee. tablish claim to the land above describe, be freJ. P. William. V. S. Commissioner, at Mb office in Heppner, Oregon, on tha 6th day ul Decern ter, 1909. Clrimant names aa witnesses: Charles Hideaway. Enoch Cave, John F. Ridgevay and Walter Davit, all of Beppncr, Oregon. Oc14Not18 F. C. PRAM WELL, Register. Knlffhta.ef Fythlaa. Doric Lodge No. 20. K. ot P. Meets eery Tuesday erenlna;. Visiting members invited. VAWTER CRAWFORD, a C. 0AEF1E1 D CRAWFORD. K.otB.48.